ies of
{ home and family;
{ Wages labor _vs._ compulsory labor;
III. { The dignity of labor _vs._ the opprobrium and servility
{ of labor;
{ A healthy industrial activity _vs._ indolence and
{ crushing toil;
{ The continual specialization of industry _vs._ industrial
{ sameness;
{ Incentives to invention and improvement _vs._ mechanical
{ inactivity;
{ A constantly renewed soil _vs._ an exhausted one;
{ A great navy and flourishing commerce _vs._ general
{ commercial apathy;
{ Great industrial prosperity _vs._ industrial
{ stagnation;
{ Greater variety and versatility in life _vs._ a narrow
{ and bigoted uniformity.

As I close the preparation of this article for the press (November
26th), it becomes positively known that General Bragg is in full
retreat. This is a great victory, and splendidly won. There has been no
'straggling to the rear,' no faltering, no serious reverse; the entire
three days' conflict, from first to last, has gone right on. A noble
victory, and worthy of a noble cause! Soldiers from every great section
of the Union--from every State almost--have stood by the side of each
other in the perilous conflict. Many have fallen a sacrifice to their
country's great cause, unity. Let homage and gratitude from the
deep-stirred heart of the nation be theirs; may they long be remembered;
and may those who survive, long live to enjoy the fruits of their
victory!

The South could ill afford to lose such a battle, here and now. Not long
can she hold out in her unnatural struggle against destiny. The tide of
a progressive civilization will roll over her, though for a time it must
needs be crimsoned with the blood of martyrs.

AENONE:

A TALE OF SLAVE LIFE IN ROME.

CHAPTER I.

When, in the second year of Titus Vespasian, the Roman general Sergius
Vanno returned from his armed expedition in the East, and asked for
public honors, there were some in the senate who made objection. It was
not fitting, they argued, that formal tokens of national commendation
should be too readily bestowed. It had not been so in the time of their
fathers. Long years of noble, self-sacrificing zeal and arduous service,
crowned with conquests of supreme importance, had then been the only
acknowledged title to the prize. It was scarcely proper that the same
distinctions which had hitherto been awarde